Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel will reject any role for Iran-backed Hamas once fighting in the Gaza Strip ends.
“Imagine allowing the defeated Nazis to rebuild Germany in 1945. That is unthinkable. It’s ridiculous,” he told the United Nations on Friday. “It didn’t happen then. It won’t happen now.”
He said Israel is ready to work with international partners to support a local civilian administration to govern Gaza after the end of the nearly year-long war to eliminate Hamas militants.
Netanyahu ended his speech to the General Assembly by calling the United Nations a “house of darkness” that reflexively takes an anti-Israel stance.
Palestinians know “that in this swamp of anti-Semitic bile there exists an automatic majority willing to demonize the Jewish state in any way.”
He continued: “In this anti-Israel, flat-earth society, any false accusation, any outlandish accusation can gain a majority vote.”
